
#228 - Doing Good
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Disaster of the Zimbabwe Play Pump
The now infamous play pump was a program that I got a lot of media coverage in the 2000s and even won a World Bank Development Marketplace award. The idea was to install kind of children's merry-go-round one of the roundabouts the things you push and then jump on and spin around in order to provide clean water for the world. It was really a disaster this development intervention so none of your none of the local communities were consulted about whether they wanted a pump, he says.
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